Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This letter comes to you from the Manchester Armory in New Hampshire, where around 500 people, charged with criminal trespass for occupying the construction site of the Seabrook nuclear power plant, have been incarcerated since Monday morning, May 2. The Manchester group is the largest currently being held; other prisoners are at the Dover, Concord and Somersworth armories...
...detained here are living on the concrete floor of a large hall, within a rope boundary. Members of the National Guard patrol the perimeter, guard doors, and serve our meals. We sleep in sleeping bags on folding cots. The packs which we carried on our march to the Seabrook site we have with us; they hold our clothing, raingear, flashlights, water bottles, and all the paraphenalia with which we, and other members of the Clamshell Alliance, had begun to set up a new community at the nuclear construction site before being arrested, a process which began...
Next to the fenced-in compound containing the buildings is a bare dirt parking lot from which one can see all around. To the west is the asphalt road that connects the site to the highway and the town. To the north, beyond an array of giant gray conduits awaiting assembly, lie unspoiled salt marshes. To the east one can see the shoreline where lobstermen and fishermen work and where, on any sunny day in July or August, 100,000 people may be soaking in the sun and salt water. To the south stand pine trees that tower above...
...founding statement declared that nuclear power plants threaten the human environment and that non-nuclear energy sources are adequate for New England's energy needs. To halt the use of nuclear power in New England, Clamshell advocates direct nonviolent action, such as one-to-one dialogue, demonstrations and site occupations...
...state government had obtained a court injunction early last week that ruled the 40-acre building area off-limits to demonstrators; as compensation, Gov. Meldrim Thomson vowed last week that no demonstrators would be arrested as long as they remained outside of the restricted portion of the site. Yet observance of these stipulations did not protect the "anti-nuke" protesters from eventual arrest on Sunday afternoon. As a handful of Harvard undergraduates sit at this moment in a Manchester, N.H. armory for their participation in the occupation, our thoughts remain with them and their fellow prisoners, and we urge...